TransectCount is used by transect counters during transect surveys. It supports the species-specific counting of butterflies per transect section according to the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme method.

New since Version 4.1.0:

- Functionality of GPS-based selection of section removed as too unreliable

- File selection view enhanced with headline

- Preferences view enhanced with headline

- Preferences show their states in menu

- Separate views for editing, deleting and adding species

- Checkboxes for bulk deleting of species from the counting list

- Checkboxes for bulk appending of further species to the counting list

- Meta data enhanced with field for inspection note (replaces section notes)

- Preferences option added for sorting results either by section or species names

- CSV-export adapted to changes

- Internal Butterfly list now identical with the list of TourCount

- Other code, text and layout improvements

- Licenses text separated

- Deprecated function replaced

- Docs revised

- Bugs fixed

Features:

- Data collection is based on a transect inspection

- Databases refer to a transect and can be individually created and customised within the app with regard to metadata, transect sections and expected species

- The app contains a pre-prepared database with the most common species to be expected in Germany as a starting point

- Separate counters for internal/external counting areas and separately for ♂♀, ♂, ♀, pupa, caterpillar or egg

- Results page with prepared presentation for transfer to the input mask of Butterfly Monitoring Germany (www.tmd-daten.de or new: web.app.ufz.de/tagfalter-monitoring/)

- The result can be output as an SQLite DB file or as a CSV table (e.g. for transfer and further use in a spreadsheet programme on a PC)

- The help contains detailed user instructions

Functions:

- Editor for metadata in preparation for an inspection

- Counter page per section with scroll-down list for species selection

- Species editor for annotation, bulk counter entries and count alert

- Editor for setting up transect sections with species selection from a comprehensive scroll-down list

- The results page shows metadata, notes, totals and counting results per species and transect section

Prerequisites:

The app requires

- storage access permit for importing and exporting counting data,

- the permit to set the screen brightness,

- the permit to prevent the sleep mode.

The smartphone screen should have a minimum resolution of 1920 x 1024 pixels.

The app can be used with Android version 7.1 (Nougat) or newer.

Documentation is provided under:

https://github.com/wistein/TransektCount/tree/master/docs.

TransektCount is one of two apps for monitoring European butterflies.

The second app, TourCount, supports the species-specific and individually GPS-localised counting of butterflies on any walk in nature.

Both apps use the coding scheme of Karsholt/Razowski for European butterflies and thus contain only European butterfly pictures.

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